Gavin: 705 books
Dyslexia
A Practitioner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
The main purpose of this new edition is to incorporate the most recent theoretical and practical research in the field of dyslexia and literacy and present it in a user friendly format for Practitioners. It refers to the most recent government reports on literacy and dyslexia in a number of countries...
Zen Pencils--Creative Struggle
Illustrated Advice from Masters of Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Zen Pencils: Creative Struggle is a call to wake up the creative spirit inside you. Through Zen Pencils cartoon quotes on creativity from inspirational artists, musicians, writers, and scientists, you'll discover what inspired each of the subjects to reach the full potential of their creativity....
Relationship-Based Research in Social Work
Understanding Practice Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Relationship-based research is founded on the idea that human relationships are of paramount importance and should be central to social work research and practice.
Drawing on psychodynamic and systemic understandings of research and practice, this book offers practitioners and academics an...
by Gavin Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Keep your bike and yourself in good shape
If you're a part of the Lycra brigade and need some guidance on maintaining your machine, this book is for you! Discover practical advice on testing your brakes, adjusting your seat height, replacing a wheel, and much more.
Open the book and...
Swimming Through Adversity
Surviving a Lung Transplant
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
When Maitland developed severe breathing difficulties in his mid-thirties, a lung transplant became his only option for survival. In addition to this aquatic and mountaineering exploits in the ten years since his lung transplant, Maitland describes talking to awe-inspiring individuals, reflects on...
Enabling participatory planning
Planning aid and advocacy in neoliberal times
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support...
Health Geographies
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Health Geographies: A Critical Introduction explores health and biomedical topics from a range of critical geographic perspectives. Building on the field’s past engagement with social theory it extends the focus of health geography into new areas of enquiry.
Introduces key topics in health...
by Gavin Dingwall
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Alcohol is massively associated with crime. Evidence from the British Medical Association found that alcohol use is associated with 60-70 per cent of murders, 70 per cent of stabbings, 50 per cent of fights or assaults in the home. For non-violent offences the association is very strong as well: 88...
by Gavin Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
It's 1947. As Britain's new Labour government struggles to cope with the break-up of Empire, there's a grisly murder in the British Museum, terrorists target British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Forrester boards the Queen Mary for a fateful voyage to New York.
by Gavin Extence
Language: German
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Eine Geschichte, die erzählt, wie besonders Freundschaft sein kann
Alex Woods ist zehn Jahre alt, und er weiß, dass er nicht den konventionellsten Start ins Leben hatte. Er weiß auch, dass man sich mit einer hellseherisch begabten Mutter bei den Mitschülern nicht beliebt macht. Und Alex...
My Revision Notes WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route A
Covering Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Target success in WJEC Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies Route A with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide you can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge.
With My Revision...
Stirling’s Desert Triumph
The SAS Egyptian Airfield Raids 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The night of July 26, 1942 saw one of the most audacious raids of World War II, just as the outcome of that conflict hung in the balance. In North Africa, a convoy of 18 Allied jeeps carrying Special Air Service personnel appeared out of the early-morning darkness and drove onto the Axis landing strip...
Computer Visualization for the Theatre
3D Modelling for Designers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Theatre designers using 3D software for computer visualisation in the theatre will find this book both a guide to the creative design process as well as an introduction to the use of computers in live performance. Covering the main software packages in use: Strata Studio Base, 3D Studio Max and 3D...
Kill Rommel!
Operation Flipper 1941
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
In November 1941, a small party of British Commandos landed by submarine in Libya, tasked with the assassination of General Erwin Rommel, commander of the German forces in North Africa, who was believed to be staying in a villa near the coast. Three men – Lt-Col Geoffrey Keyes, Capt Robin Campbell...